Meaning, that what’s away from one’s eyes is also away from one’s mind, literally translated. However, you do get the drift.

Park your funds in such a manner, that you can’t immediately see them.

It can be something as simple as a savings account linked fixed deposit.

I prefer liquid funds, with my broker in between.

To call in the funds, I need to dial my broker. Then, a full working day needs to elapse before I have access to the funds in my savings account. I find this activation barrier slightly higher than logging in to net banking and nullifying a fixed deposit. That would give access in just two minutes. Too soon for me. I use my off-set day as a buffer, to perhaps contemplate about really going ahead with fund deployment or not. Access in two minutes would mean firing the gun without proper contemplation.

Yes, put an activation barrier between you and your funds. On purpose. Then they are truly parked. What do you do when you park your car? Handbrake on? Of course. So it is with parking of funds too. You put the handbrake on. Your activation barrier is the handbrake.

Now?

Now nothing.

Sit.

Do other stuff.

Lead a full life. Enjoy your life.

Time will pass.

Opportunities will come …

… and go.

Are they making you jump out of your seat?

No?

Right.

Keep park mode on.

Eventually, something will come along that will make you jump.

Homework gives a green signal.

You will want to be in. Every cell in your body will say so.

Kill park modus.

Let the funds flow to where they want to flow, into this opportunity that is making you jump.

From here to there – anywhere – Jupiter – Uranus – some other universe – in a flash.

Explore your thoughts. Pull them out into infinite threads. It pays.

We are trying to understand the meaning of wealth.

How is it different from income?

What’s the one elephant-in-the-room factor that sums up this difference?

Is there even such a factor?

Yes, I feel there is.

Maybe someone’s come up with this before. I don’t care. We all stand upon the shoulders of giants, as do I. From there, we generate our two pennies.

So, how is wealth intrinsically and basically different from income?

Income is something you take out of your flow, to finance your everyday environment, including shucking up for nitty-gritties in day to day lives of those who depend upon you.

Wealth can be generated from that portion of your flow that has not been taken out for mundane use. This flow, which has not been taken out, has then been simultaneously allowed to coexist by you in a different form, over a long period of time. It accrues, compounds and multiplies – over the long period of time – into wealth.

Overflow. As basic income starts to overflow, it needs a long-term avenue in which it doesn’t demand our constant attention.

Fine.

What’s the best way…

… to go about it?

Where there’s honey, there are bees.

Finance-people find you. You have money. They have investments. For finance-people, you are bread and butter.

So, you sit.

You wait.

You let them come.

You’ve got discriminatory-ability.

You sift. 99% of what comes goes into the bin.

You like 1%.

You invest in that 1%.

How much?

Whatever you pre-define as your per-annum outflow into wealth-creation.

Only that much.

What then?

What’s the bottom-line?

What’s your holding strategy?

Nothing.

You sit.

“The biggest money is made…

…while sitting.”

You’re not even looking at your long-term investment more than once a month.

You’re not interested in daily quotes.

The daily quote can say zero. You don’t care. You know that you are in the process of creating wealth, and that it’s going to take long, and within that period you don’t care if the world thinks your holding is zero, because you know it isn’t.